Sequence analysis of the βB2-crystallin cDNA of hamster containing a domain conserved among vertebrates

Gene

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 181-184

  Zarbalis, Konstantinos ^a   Chatterjee, Bimal ^a   Löster, Jana ^a   Werner, Thomas ^a   Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA sequence analysis; Evolution; Eye protein; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRYSTALLIN; EYE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; HAMSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; CRICETINAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030603237     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00256-9     Document Type: Article

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